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World Consumer Rights Day: Support competition, support the consumerhttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9792World Consumer Rights Day: Support competition, support the consumerWillem BoshoffWorld Consumer Rights Day is observed on 15 March. In an opinion piece, Prof Willem Boshoff writes that we need to consider how regulatory constraints and non-competition objectives threaten to derail the country’s consumer-focused competition policy.
International Women’s Day: Women’s voices must be heardhttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9779International Women’s Day: Women’s voices must be heardCorporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & BemarkingInternational Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University write that women’s voices must be heard in all spheres of society.
SA’s women academics burnt out when working from homehttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9776SA’s women academics burnt out when working from homeCorporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]Working from home became a nightmare for many of South Africa’s women academics during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic-enforced lockdown in 2020 because of increased workloads, domestic pressures, and inadequate workspaces.
Circular economy can help municipalities manage waste sustainablyhttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9775Circular economy can help municipalities manage waste sustainablyCorporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]Municipalities, especially the smaller ones, should consider implementing a circular economic model of reusing, recycling, refurbishment and remanufacturing of waste products instead of just dumping them in landfills.
OPTIMUS programme launch 2023http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9760OPTIMUS programme launch 2023Dr Sharon MalanExcellence and achievement were celebrated as the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) welcomed some of the top second-year students in the faculty to the opening of the 2023 OPTIMUS programme on Monday, 20 February 2023.
South Africa’s relief grant: how it can be used to help young people into jobshttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9762South Africa’s relief grant: how it can be used to help young people into jobsKate Orkin, Ingrid Woolard, Maya Goldman, Murray LeibbrandtThe COVID-19 pandemic worsened the unemployment crisis in South Africa. In the second quarter of 2021, unemployment rates were the highest ever officially recorded. Many people who lost their only source of stable income fell into poverty as a result.
Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference hosted by SU departmentshttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9759Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference hosted by SU departmentsGeorge Nel (School of Accountancy) and Nicolene Wesson (Stellenbosch Business School)The Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference was hosted jointly by the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa at the Stellenbosch Business School and, the School of Accountancy, Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at SU.
Experts urge government to prioritise SA's reading crisis http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9751Experts urge government to prioritise SA's reading crisis Corporate Communication and Marketing​Most children in South Africa in no-fee schools leave Grade 1 without knowing the alphabet, while 82% of Grade 4 children across the country cannot read for meaning.
Private, communal landholders need more support to protect rhinoshttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9738Private, communal landholders need more support to protect rhinosCorporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]Adaptive policies are needed to support private and communal rhino custodians who conserve at least half of the remaining rhinos in Africa.
Research grant conditions holding women in STEM backhttp://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9733Research grant conditions holding women in STEM backAnita Bosch & Georgina PondayiThe way research grant conditions are formulated can deter women academics inscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from applying for this type of funding.